The Osceola times., 1887-05-28
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

tices Of the peace: Dudley Lake. Barraque
and Plum Bayou townships in Jefferson
County, May 30; St. Francis township, Lee
County, and Paraclifta township, Sewer
County, June
The Governor has RENTED the fine OF
fifty dollars against Joseph Jones, OF
johnson County, assessed by tue Circuit
Court IL May last for carrying a pistol
The remission was recommended by the
county Judge, the clerk and many Of the
best citizens Of Johnson County.
Every day about fifteen dogs have been
Impounded and, not bein gataken out, are
killed by the Little Rock police.
Mr. John A Ellis. Of Ellis township,
Pulaski County, recently killed large
wolf. He was close 10 q neighbor's house
sitting talking with the owner in the
moonlight, when he saw some large AMI
NAL running past them, he leveled his gun
and fired and the animal dropped, but
Jumped up and ran of. His neighbor
called the dogs and started them on the
trail. but they had not gone more than
hundred yards before they came upon the
animal, which was dead aud which proved
TO be a gray wolf, three feet high, six and
a half feet long and weighing l5J pounds
The Memphis & Little Rock railroad
continues TO charge five cents per mile &c
passengers over its line, in defiance Of the
law which recently went into effect regu
lating rates in this State. Suit has been
begun by passenger so charged in order
to bring the matter before the courts, and
the constitutionality Of the act will prob
ably be tested.
Newport offices have been established
at Liverpool, Sebastian County, Samuel
II. Crow. postmaster: Wattenssw, I,onoke
County. Obadiah L. Ownes, postmaster.
A +. Talbot, admin istraior Of Louis Tai.
bot, his nephew, brought suit in the
United States District Court Of Little
Rock, last fall, against the Little Rock e.
Fort Smith railroad. claiming damages OF
SIS, ,0U) for the death OF his nephew, who
was a brakeman on the above road, and
who was run over ami killed in the
Argenta yards in June, 1858 The decision
on the recent trial was for the defendant.
Reports from every portion of Arkansas
indicate fair crop prospects, both Of grain
and cotton.
The case Of the johnson County citizens
complaining OF the lessees Of the peniten.
tiary has been argued before the commis =
sioners, but a decision has been withheld
for the present
A. G.. Apple, Of Wood, gently sent ten
cases of strawberries to the convicts IN
the penitentiary.
A Little Rock negro recently went down
in the bottoms and climbed sixty feet up
tree after a coon. A limb broke, the
coon hunter fell to the ground andre.
tired from business.
Thomas ID. Crincr, one Of the substan.
tial farmers of Ouchita County, was IN
Little Rock few days ago for the first
time since 1915 He said IL was a pleas
ure to him to compare the present Little
Rock with the village he visited forty-one
years ago
Colonel j. G. Wallis recently exhibited
some specimens Of argeutiferous galena
in Little Rock, which he said was TO be
found in immense, Inexhaustibl, quanti-
ties at points six miles east and six miles
west OF Benton. Saline County. The
mines on the eastern side, he sand, were
being worked successfully.
Napoleon b. Crump, who was warrant
clerk under State Auditor Files, and
afterward private secretary TO United
States Senator J. II. Berry, has been ap.
pointed special agent of the General Land
ONCE for fraudulent land entries with
headquarters in New Mexico. He for.
merly lived at Harrison, Boone County.
There are twenty grain distilleries IN
the district OF Arkansas at present, nine
of which were in operation during April
and prod uced 463i gallons Of spirits.
Three thousand one hundred and forty,
one gallons were withdrawn from bonde1
warehouses and 81, ,q6) gallons were in
bonded warehouses May /.
The State Grand Lodge Knights OF
Pytha as, at its recent session, elected the
following officers for the ensuing year
John T. King, Little Rock, grand chancel.
lor; G.. W. Watson, Hot Springs, grand
vice chancellor; NJ ID. f Elrlv. Loaoke,
grand prelate; NJ Jessup, Dlrdanelle
grand master of exchange;J j. NJ Taylor,
Pine Bluff, grand keeper Of records and
seal; C. Dutlinger, Little Rock, grand
master-at-arms; Max Broh, Magnolia,
grand junior guard; W. T. Chdester,
Camden, grand outer guard. Thomas Es
sex, of Little Rock, and A. A. Tufts, o
Camden, wee elected supreme represent
ative and Hot Springs elected the place
for next meeting.
Hon. B. B. Hudgins, says he will in M
case be a candidate for Governor, but he
hight be a candidate FOR Attorney Gen
sral.
II became necessary few nights age
Tor the mayor of Little Rock to teach
Alderman Thompson that the office Il
which the people Of the Third ward un
wisely elected him should be filled by
man who knows how to behave while at
tempting TO perform his official duties
Failing to do so Thompson was expelled
from the building by the chief Of police.
Instruments for the new telephone lin,
from Dardanelle TO the interior town,
have been put up The line starts from
Dardanelle, runs TO Chicago, Danville
Bellevile, Rover and Ola, n circuit o.
about fifty miles. 1t is owned ant
operated by local capitalists.
Work on the river Improvement at Oar
danclle is progres ssing as fast as po sibl,
under the immediate supervisor Of Cap
tain Oficer. The late rise in the river
damaged the mattresses to some extent
but they have been repaired and the
whole force is now occupied IN p le-driv
Ing The next rise in the river will test
the capability Of the work to do what 4
Is intended for, VIZ, to wash away tn,
sand bar in front of the town.
J. +. Shelton, the p,st-officc thief who
recently escaped from an officer in Lttl,
Rock, is nineteen years old, feet 6s.
inches high, weight li6, dark hair, gra,
eyes and clean shaven; wears dark sack
coat and vest, light brown pin striped
pants, light derby hat, light colored scar
with Roman gold pin set with small da
mond and cuff buttons to match, gold
watch and chain with charm to match
scarf.pin and No congress kid CATERS
New post-office: Flag, Stone County.
Secretary Lamar, in the case Of certain
Arkansas swamp lands, has decided that
Interior Department can take no further
action in regard to the settlement oi
these claims until certain restrictions i'm.
posed by the Legislature of Arkansas up